Quebec, Quebec
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| Nickname(s): "La Vieille Capitale" | |||
| Motto: Don de Dieu feray valoir ("I shall put God's gift to good use"; the Don de Dieu was Champlain's ship) |
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| Coordinates: 46°49′N 71°13′W / 46.817°N 71.217°WCoordinates: 46°49′N 71°13′W / 46.817°N 71.217°W | |||
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 Quebec
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| Region | Capitale-Nationale | ||
| Metropolitan community | Communauté métropolitaine de Québec | ||
| Agglomeration | Agglomeration of Quebec City | ||
| First settled | 11 October 1535, by Jacques Cartier | ||
| Founded | 3 July 1608, by Samuel de Champlain | ||
| Constituted | 1 January 2002 | ||
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| • Type | Quebec City Council | ||
| • Mayor | Régis Labeaume | ||
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| • City | 484.10 km2 (186.91 sq mi) | ||
| • Land | 454.10 km2 (175.33 sq mi) | ||
| • Metro | 3,349.12 km2 (1,293.10 sq mi) | ||
| Elevation | 98 m (322 ft) | ||
| Population (2011) | |||
| • City | 516,622 (11th) | ||
| • Density | 1,137.7/km2 (2,947/sq mi) | ||
| • Metro | 765,706 (7th) | ||
| • Metro density | 228.6/km2 (592/sq mi) | ||
| • Pop 2006-2011 |
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| Time zone | EST (UTC−5) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC−4) | ||
| Postal code(s) | G1A to G2N | ||
| Area code(s) | 418 and 581 | ||
| Website | www |
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Quebec City (pronounced 
i/kwᵻˈbɛk/ or /kəˈbɛk/;French: Québec [kebɛk]); French: Ville de Québec; officially Québec) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Quebec. The city had a population estimate of 545,485, (July 2016) and the metropolitan area had a population of 806,400, (July 2015) making it Canada's seventh-largest metropolitan area and Quebec's second-largest city after Montreal, which is about 260 kilometres (160 mi) to the southwest.
The narrowing of the Saint Lawrence River proximate to the city's promontory, Cap-Diamant (Cape Diamond), and Lévis, on the opposite bank, provided the name given to the city, Kébec, an Algonquin word meaning "where the river narrows". Founded in 1608 by Samuel de Champlain, Quebec City is one of the oldest cities in North America. The ramparts surrounding Old Quebec (Vieux-Québec) are the only fortified city walls remaining in the Americas north of Mexico, and were declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1985 as the 'Historic District of Old Québec'.
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